Man About Town KC

I sometimes eat a QT Bismark (cream-filled donut) with a fork. <<ducks under table>>

House History Boot Camp Have you recently purchased a home and want to learn more about its past?

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Kansas bill would cap off $4.1B in stadium subsidies by letting Chiefs vote to approve own lease Sure, the state of Kansas already passed a bill to provide Kansas City Chiefs owner with $2.775 billion in state-backed STAR bonds and another $1.3 billion and change in additional tax money, and the ...

The Kansas bill would not only give the Chiefs a voting seat on the state sports authority, it would exempt the stadium from oversight and competitive bidding rules. One state senator warns it would set up "an unaccountable 'Shadow Government.'"

I don't know. And most of the news I read about Pancho's moving was probably two years ago, so I'm assuming they still are the ones planning to move in there.

That was the plan. Mac Properties development will swallow up their current location. It's the old Subway location on the southwest corner. They've been working on it a loooooooong time.

Wife and I drove by what I believe will be their new location at Linwood and Main today, and it looks great! Any news about when they might move in?

Same question. Storm was north of us.

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Surprise, surprise.

Thiebaud was known for his paintings of pie slices, cakes and candy, but I have always been in love with his cityscapes.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

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Kansas City airport evacuated as authorities, including the FBI, investigate a potential threat Portions of Kansas City International Airport were being evacuated Sunday afternoon as authorities looked into a potential threat.

Portions of Kansas City International Airport were being evacuated Sunday afternoon as authorities looked into a potential threat.

The truth about World Cup ticket demand and why USA’s opener has struggled to sell out — The Athletic Six days after FIFA president Gianni Infantino claimed that “every” 2026 World Cup match is “already sold out,” FIFA, out of nowhere, launched an effort to sell World Cup tickets.

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An architectural watercolor painting.

A watercolor painting of wrestler Adam Page.

In light of the bigoted new anti-trans law in Kansas, I’m launching a charity auction to benefit Trans Continental Pipeline.

I’ll do a 12x16 watercolor painting of the auction winner’s choice. Wrestling, superhero, movie, wedding picture, pets, whatever you want!
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God bless America.

The Leimkuhler house in North Kansas City was moved, but I do not know what year.

Anthropic's Claude overtakes ChatGPT in App Store as users boycott over OpenAI's $200 million Pentagon contract | Fortune Protest campaigns across Reddit and X may have helped drive users away from OpenAI.

Anthropic’s Claude climbed to the No. 1 spot on Apple’s App Store, dethroning ChatGPT just days after OpenAI announced they company had supplanted Anthropic by striking a deal with the U.S. Department of War. https://bit.ly/4aJA0Ui

Did Jack the Ripper Once Call St. Louis Home? Francis Tumblety: The Strange Story of a Strange Man

If you have St. Louis connections or just appreciate urban culture and history, check out the Unseen St. Louis Substack.

This edition I found fascinating—St. Louis-related or not.

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If only Alamo wasn’t a bunch of dicks.

Just ONE of the F-15 jets that were destroyed in Kuwait cost the same amount as the entire KC Streetcar downtown starter line project.

Streetcars, rails, construction jobs, maintenance facility, wires... all of it.

Don't let them tell you we can't afford high quality modern transit.

"Thirty EB-5 investors haven't received $500,000 repayments from MFH Properties...."

"Investors in MFH Properties include Mariner Holdings CEO Marty Bicknell and Platform Ventures founders Ryan and Terry Anderson."

It’s amazing how not a single journalist will ask him to name the 8 wars he had stopped.

For the $99 deal, that is. TIA.

Is there a broadcast schedule somewhere?

FACT FOCUS: A look at Trump's false and misleading claims ahead of the State of the Union President Donald Trump is delivering the first State of the Union address of his second term. Priorities for the Republican’s administration have centered largely on the economy, immigration, crime, e...

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Email to USA Hockey

Formal invitation to the hockey team sent,,, if any people with connections to the hockey team wanna have them email my team my bio. I’m for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

“As Karen got to know the guards at the … ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. ‘Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,’ Karen says.”

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew https://theonion.com/aide-wearily-begins-5th-explanation-of-why-trump-cant-pardon-prince-andrew/

I helped produce marketing videos for this building shortly after the Fed moved. I don’t remember the developer/client then.

It’s a shame this building can’t attract a developer with real know-how and sufficient resources.

Maybe a company not going through bankruptcies like the current one.